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In reply to the discussion: The Unbearable Whiteness of the American Left [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)What makes you think you possess the necessary facts, when you can't possibly have the necessary life experience to have them in the first place? The inherent limitation to what you can understand, even if you work at it, and you haven't, is that you are not now and never will be black, and so therefore can't know what it is like as a personal experience. You can't stand outside that and know.
What knowledge do you have of the black community in the US? Do you live with black people? Do you socialize with black people? Do you even work with black people? How do you know of what issues are of concern to them?
I think, from the way that you express yourself, that you have little to no experience in this area.
I'm going to single this out as your core pattern:
Not exactly. What I *have* said, however is that I do try to base my opinions on facts and objective observation. And occasionally, I do get it wrong. And when I do, I try to correct that. In this case, however, there's nothing that definitively disproves the observations that I have made. And the observations I've made are not unique to myself.
A few of my observations about you:
1) You have presented no proof you your observations. You never do.
2) You don't have facts, either, presented anywhere as part of your thesis.
3) You argue by assertion only, and never support your observations. You now ask others to disprove your unsupported assertion. Sorry, it is your argument to make, and you haven't made it.
Once again, if you were actually interested in the opinions of African-Americans, there are a multitude of blogs out there. I can tell by your "observations" that you haven't read any of them.